Out of the Past – 8-31-2016
Out of the Past – 8-31-2016
10 years ago
August 30, 2006
It’s time for the Colfax village board to either get on the train or leave the platform, according to the commission working on forming an ambulance service (EMS) district for the Colfax Area. The commission requested a special meeting with the village board August 30.
With music performed by Jim Herrick & Friends in the background, kids of all ages played a bowling game on Main Street in Colfax before the Kiwanis street dance August 25. A hot dog eating contest also was part of the festivities.
Concrete has been poured for the bleacher area in the baseball field improvement project and most of the work on the dugouts has been done, the Colfax school board learned August 21.
25 years ago
August 29, 1991
Juel Lind, a resident at Area Nursing Home who tends the vegetable garden, showed off one of his cucumbers which had reached a length of 16 inches and was still growing.
Low milk prices prompted the Dunn County Board, during a special meeting August 21, to send a letter to the United States secretary of agriculture. Milk prices have dropped $3 per hundredweight, which translates into a $22,000 per year loss of income for a farm milking 50 cows. All together, 3,000 people in Dunn County are employed in farm-related jobs, representing 26 percent of the county’s workforce.
A grant of $25,000 from the Otto Bremer Foundation through First American Bank in Colfax will help Lutheran Social Services develop the Teen Issues Project in Colfax, Elk Mound, Boyceville, Wheeler and Bloomer.
35 years ago
September 3, 1981
The first softball tournament on the village’s new field attracted 16 teams and plenty of spectators August 28-30. Badger Boys, a team composed of players from Ridgeland Prairie Farm, captured the first place slot in the first men’s slowpitch softball tournament ever at Colfax’s new softball diamond. To garner their trophy and $400 in prize money, the Badger Boys came through the 16 team double elimination tournament undefeated.
At a special town meeting in Otter Creek August 26, several electors were upset that Anita Rundle and Mrs. Leslie Snyder were paid $5 per hour to patch township roads. Several other people voiced the opinion that after five to six years, the blacktop patching was finally done, and what the two women were paid doesn’t matter, that it was worth it to get the roads fixed.
Marrian Mannes collected the biggest stock retirement ever given by the Colfax Farmers Union Co-op Supply in form of a check for $10,430 handed out August 26 by Ken Knoepke, president of the board of directors.
50 years ago
September 1, 1966
Among the bills approved by the Colfax Village Board at the August 22, 1951, meeting was $12 to the Dunn County Highway Commission for poisoning the village dump.
On sale at the Farmers’ Store: 16 ½ ounce Morton House pork and beans, 5 cans for $1; County Kitchen buns Coney 10’s and Hamburger 12’s, 2 packages for 55 cents; green seedless grapes, 2 pounds for 29 cents.
Duron Bergeson, Town of Grant, exhibited a second blue ribbon on his senior Guernsey calf heifer and earned first place Guernsey showman at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee August 11 – 15.
65 years ago
August 30, 1951
A striking display in color and originality was noted at the annual Colfax Garden Club flower show on Saturday and Sunday, the myriad of colors being due to a large number of more than 240 entries made at the two-day show held at the Municipal building. Garden Club heads estimated that the crowd attending the show at more than 500 people. The judges were both from Minneapolis.
Thieves broke into the Hammer Chevrolet Company garage sometime Friday night or early Saturday morning and made off with a large 600-pound office safe containing an estimated $275 in cash, in addition to company records and numerous valuable papers. Entrance was made by jimmying a window on the west end.
A large semi 10-ply truck tire exploded Sunday afternoon at Menomonie, instantly killing Elton Delano Halvorson, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Halvorson, route 6, Menomonie, former Colfax residents. The accident occurred at the Oscar Gilbertson service station in North Menomonie.
100 years ago
September 1, 1916
The fellow who took the sack of sugar from the freight room at the Soo depot is said to be known, so it would be best for him to return it at once.
Come in and see the big bargains I have to offer on Automobile Robes. If you need one, you can’t afford to miss this chance. Chris J. Johnson. Harnessmaker. Colfax, Wis.
Notice is hereby given that the polling place for the Primary Election next Tuesday, Sept. 5th, will be in the council room of the new municipal building in the village. Ed. C. Davey, Clerk.